It was also a pleasure to celebrate my lovely friend, the gorgeous Mario's birthday by leaving a singing message on his voicemail. How wonderful to wake up to the dulcit tones of moi, first thing on a morning..Mind you my voice has been relied on to clear a bar in 60 seconds so maybe not, lol.

Much hilarity is made of my hair and how most people don't see it in it's wild state, so Terry decided to photograph me putting in my Victory roll.

First I deal with the rest of my hair leaving a section for the fringe. I then use whatever I have handy. Today it was a bottle of Lancome toner.

Twist the ends of the hair around the bottle

and start to roll towards the head.

keep rolling...

until you reach the head and carefully slide the bottle out.

Start securing with bobby pins on one side of the roll...

and repeat on the other...

Then voila.... Ooooops no final picture, but you get the idea.

We also happened to stumble into a Sephora store...Oh my... 3 hrs later, after leaving a kidney as payment we were dragged kicking and screaming from the store by security, he he

But not before I scored pressies for everyone back home and a few "essential" bits and bobs for me.

One of which was the most fabulous eyeliners I have evr owned. It is my eternal quest to find the perfect eyeliner. It has to be wide enought to draw, but fine enough to offer the perfect cats eye flicks. Permanent enough to last all day but quick drying to avoid smudges.
I had given up hope, but lo and behold the beauty angels in Sephora were smiling down on me and I struck gold.

I chose the pack of 3 sizes for different looks, but it also worked out to be better value.

I then came across this on face book.

Ooh I could have a different look every day, lol

But the fun still wasn't over, it was on to Long Island to teach at Scrappers playground. Terry came with me for the weekend to be my lovely assistant Fifi..!!

Some of the fabulous students.

He he they had me on a big screen...

The lovely Michael travelled from Brazil to spend another day with me.

Here is the lovely Sue, owner of the store, with her Mum, the fabulous Dee Mama, taking part in the proceedings.

A big thankyou to them, Terry for accompanying me and to the fabulous students.

I am now on my way home. I have flown back across the pond and landed on British soil, but I am holed up in a trendy Manchester boutique hotel, with the Mr Babe of Deliciousness, watching back to back Olympics.
Big congratulations to the gold medal winners. The girls, Helen Glover and Heather Stanning, rowed like there was no tomorrow and Bradley Wiggins side burns deserved a medal of their own.

Whooohooo!! You are home faberoonie! You get the gold medal for victory rolls!! Looking fabulous as always! Great to have you home hope your tootsies are feeling better! I'm well jel......that eyeliner!!! Omg!! Love xxx Big snogs

I am GREEN with envy, to have both you and Kate in the same room must have been "Absolutley Amazing". I have been to "Absolutley Everything" twice when on holiday in New England and I love her shop and she is a wonderfully generous lady. She gave me for mini workshops on my first visit, all because I asked a question about something I saw in her workshop.

Wow. Welcome back Dy.Love your photo's, we can always tell what a great time you are having from looking at them. They remind me (In a good way) of an old Charlie Chaplin (One of my Hero's, and Bruce Lee of course!) film, where you don't need words!!Love your B&W dress, is it one of your own makes. Gorgeous. Take care and see you in August.Debbiexx

Welcome home - glad you are home safe and having some time with Mr BoD. The pics are great and am loving the eyeliner and examples. Can't wait till mid-August when we can get our inky-mitts on your stamps and stencils! lol Susiesu xxx

What fab photo's - you always look like you are having a brilliant time. Love the hair rolling, you do always look very cool. welcome back and enjoy watching the Olympics and hopefully, have a bit of a rest! xx

Come back to NY, Dyan! We miss you already :). What a wonderful time we all had at Scrappers Playground. You kept us very busy with either inky goodness or side-splitting laughter. You are a real gem. C'mon back to NY anytime! Michele

Hi Dyan- I had SO MUCH fun in your Absolutely Everything classes and have been painting and inking up journal pages like mad ;-) I embellished up my treasured autograph of yours in my altered book - you can see it here: http://pennybennington.blogspot.com/2012/07/classes-with-dyan-reavely.html

Thanks for all the inspiration and hope you visit New England again!Penny

Thanks SO much for the awesome workshops you taught at Absolutely Everything.

You are such a fun lady and made the classes even more special. Not only did we learn all kinds of wonderful new techniques, hints and fun tips -(Bumm Oven) etc...we also had lots of laughs! I will look forward to taking more workshops the next time you come back to AE !! It was a PLEASURE!!